The crane wife

Patrick Ness

Original title: The Crane Wife

earliest edition we have, 2013 Harper Perennial, 2015 paperback 320 pages

George Duncan is an American living and working in London. He is divorced, the owner of a small print shop, and lonelier than he realizes. One night he is woken by an extraordinary sound coming from his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by a giant arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George pulls out the arrow and frees the crane, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his...

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The Crane Wife paperback · 2015 · Harper Perennial · 320 pages · 9781443420136
Crane Wife edition · 2014 · Canongate Books · 320 pages · 9780857868749
The crane wife edition · 2014 · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. · 310 pages · 9781443420129
The crane wife edition · 2014 · Penguin Press · 310 pages · 9781594205477
The Crane Wife. Patrick Ness hardcover · 2013 · Canongate Books · 310 pages · 9780857868718
Crane Wife edition · 2013 · Canongate Books · 310 pages · 9780857868732
The Crane Wife edition · 2013 · Canongate Books Ltd · 310 pages · 9780857868725
The crane wife edition · 2013 · Charnwood · 9781444817331

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